Island, The

Synopsis

While coming back to Britain after a long sojourn in the Far East you took passage on an old tramp steamer to cross the Pacific. You have been shaken out of your bunk by a tremendous explosion forward and lost consciousness.

It appears that the ship has hit a mine left over from the Second World War and is listing and is down by the stem.

When you came to you rushed up on deck, only to see the two lifeboats, crewed mainly by natives, as mere dots on the horizon.